Yes, thank you -- these links are informative and help kick start the conversation right away.

Tiffany, I was talking with theater professor Denise Pullen... she said that cell phones are the great plot-destroyers in modern drama, since it's much harder to arrange dramatic entrances or build a whole story around a crucial bit of missing information.

Jessie, Marshall McLuhan -- the English professor who coined the term "Global Village" -- argued that technology drives us closer together. Of course, some villages are horrible places to live, but that may be beside the point!